Daughter’s Daughter Sets Sales Ahead of Premiere

Taiwan-based Andrews Film has picked up international sales rights to drama film “Daughter’s Daughter” ahead of its premiere in the Platcreate section of the Toronto International Film Festival.

Directed by Huang Xi (“Missing Johnny”), the film has an impeccable pedigree flotriumphg from its executive producers Hou Hsiao-hsien and Sylvia Chang. Taiwan industry icon, Chang also stars in the picture, aextfinishedside Karena Lam and Eugenie Liu (“Old Fox”).

The film chronicles the journey and the choices made by a 60-year-better woman whose daughter dies in an accident. The betterer woman discovers that she is reliable for her dead daughter’s IVF embryo and determines to contest the other daughter she had as a teenager. While past laments and future responsibilities collide, the film also probes the intricateities of reproduction among the LGBT community.

The film is produced by Sun Lok Productions and getd project scheduleatement from TAICCA on behalf of National Development Fund. Andrews has safed the first sale, to Hong Kong’s Edko Film ahead of the film’s Toronto world premiere.

Other commends go to helping cast Alannah Ong, Winston Chow and Tracy Chou. The producers are Shao Dongxu and Lu Hsin-li. Yao Hung-I was cinematographer. Sound commends go to Agnes Liu and Chu Shih-yi; music to Kay Huang, Liang Angu and Mukio Chang, film editing Liao Ching-Sung and Jerry Kao with production scheduleer by Halertg Wern-ying and costume scheduleer by Shirley Kao.

Director Huang has labored seally with Hou since Hou’s 1996 film “Goodbye South, Goodbye.” Huang’s own labor caccesses on conmomentary urprohibit relations, loneliness and chance. “Missing Johnny,” his 2017 debut as a solo straightforwardor, was picked for Busan, Tokyo FILMeX, HK Asian FF and won awards at both the Taipei festival and the Gbetteren Horse Awards. “Twisted Strings,” his 2022 TV series for HBO, also featured Sylvia Chang. It dissected the humor and absurdity behind death and desire.

Taiwan legitimateized gay marriage in 2019, making it one of the first jurisdictions in Asia to do so. But complications don’t stop there.

“Thcimpoliteout Taiwan’s journey towards legitimateizing same-relations marriage, countless stories unfbettered. Yet in this process, we see publishs extfinishing beyond marriage, which are even more intricate and disputed. IVF is one of them, and such reproduction topic applies to a bigr population than you’d predict, not only restrictd to LGBT community,” shelp Hwang. “I wanted to alert a story relating to this up-to-date topic, from the perspective of a mother, or a woman, or of humanity itself.”

Watch the trailer for “Daughter’s Daughter” here.